“When the hurricane hit, it broke my heart, because I lived in Atlantic City. I graduated in 1959 from Atlantic City High School,” Pousa told Channel 4 Action News’ Sheldon Ingram.

Pousa, who owns “A Thrift Shop By MK” in Jeannette, said she and her staff worked to gather 600 boxes of clothing donations for hurricane victims.

But their plans to ship those goods to people in New York and New Jersey hit a major snag.

“We contacted people in Staten Island, and they did not want to take it,” said co-owner Cathy Means.

“When I said it was a thrift shop, they said, ‘Oh, we can't take it because they will not accept anything used,’” said Pousa.

Means said it breaks her heart, because she knows there are people in need of help.

“There was a woman on television who sat there and cried because she had been in her underwear for two weeks, and we went out and bought underwear to send to them and have nowhere to send it,” she said.